True tales from the corners of our world
I recently went on a Far East tour (South Korea, Taiwan, Japan) as a speaker. I met Dr. David Azouz, a plastic surgeon from Texas, and his wife Angie, and we became good friends during the course of the trip, spending a lot of time in conversation.
We were in the airport flying from South Korea to Taiwan, when Dr. Azouz — who loved to tell stories as much as I loved to hear them — shared the following memory.
While I’ve spent the majority of my life in Canada and the United States, my family can trace its roots back to Turkey and other places. A few decades ago, my wife and I went on a family vacation to Turkey. One morning, our entire group of cousins decided it would be a good day for a boat ride to the nearby Greek Islands that lie just a short distance away from Turkey.
We looked at the various options on a map before deciding to take a boat to an island called Kos (we really wanted to go to Rhodes, but it was too far away for a one-day excursion).
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